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In the small Maine town of Denmark, near the New Hampshire border, some residents are calling for more accountability from bottled water giant Poland Spring. The company extracts water from land it owns in Denmark and then sells it to consumers. The town isn’t compensated for what is withdrawn. And climate change is fueling concerns…
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Dan Hastie, a maintenance worker at Temple Israel in Portsmouth, N.H., spent part of last Thursday trying to scrape away the last remnants of a red swastika from the synagogue’s back entranceway. “It’s just frustrating, you know,” Hastie said, as he tried to wash away the spray paint with acetone and a scrub brush. “Stuff like…
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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many New England states looked to protect and expand abortion access. Connecticut took an early lead, opening an information hotline, enacting new legislation that provides legal protections, and increasing the number of abortion providers. Dr. Nancy Stanwood, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, has been…
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss a challenge to the EPA’s Housatonic River cleanup plan. The appeal was brought by two environmental groups. The appeal includes arguments that the EPA should send all PCB-contaminated waste to a licensed off-site facility, rather than putting it in a…
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The number of people reporting long COVID symptoms fell by roughly half from last summer to 1 in 10, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Household Pulse Survey, analyzed by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Dr. Arjun Venkatesh, the incoming chair of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine, recently co-authored…
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says Florida’s governor is “dead wrong” for rejecting an African American studies advanced placement course. Florida recently rejected AP African American Studies, a course Gov. Ron DeSantis likened to a “political agenda.” “We are much better off as a state in the country when we have a better understanding of our full…
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A major renewable energy project in Aroostook County got a boost Tuesday, as Maine’s Public Utilities Commission concluded that it’s in the public interest. The wind farm and transmission line are driven by Maine’s climate goals. Longroad Energy’s $2 billion, 1,000-megawatt King Pine wind power project would be New England’s largest onshore wind farm. And…
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Recent snowfall has made it feel more like winter in Vermont. But warm temperatures through December into early January have already taken their toll on one industry: Logging. Loggers rely on frozen ground to access certain forested areas, but that’s been difficult so far this year. And the warming climate is just one of the…
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Boston officials gathered in Chinatown Sunday morning to celebrate Lunar New Year – but many were thinking about Memphis, after the release of the police video showing the brutal beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of five police officers. Police Commissioner Michael Cox told reporters he was grappling with what he saw in the…
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Barbara Murdoch said scorpions have had about 400 million years of survival to get things right. “For comparison, humans have been on the planet for about 0.2 million years,” Murdoch, an associate professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, said. “There’s got to be just something about [scorpions] that is special. That they can survive through…
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